air strike

noun

: an attack in which military airplanes drop bombs

The strategy calls for air strikes on key targets.

Examples of air strike in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Someone won more than $500,000 with a successful bet on the timing of the death of Ayatollah Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, shortly before he was killed by an Israeli air strike on February 28. — Finn Brunton, Harpers Magazine, 1 Sep. 2026

But fate intervened, and a French air strike on this civilian estate in the countryside would lead to the death of my grandmother (who was 27 years old at the time) and my 1-year-old uncle. — Phong Nguyen, PEOPLE, 25 Aug. 2026

At one point, Goodman appears to be leading an air strike on an iceberg before suddenly falling asleep. — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 13 July 2026

Five years later, under President Obama, another air strike hit another wedding party, this time in Yemen, killing 12 more people. — Ta-Nehisi Coates, Vanity Fair, 15 June 2026

Rhymes for air strike

• alike
• belike
• birdlike
• catlike
• childlike
• christlike
• deathlike
• dislike
• dreamlike
• friedreich
• godlike
• hairlike